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Chile's La Esmeralda sailing in New York harbor.
Chile's La Esmeralda sailing in
New York harbor.



Empowering Workers, by José Piñera (1995, updated 2005)

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Chile's Social Security Reform by John Tierney (NYT, 2005)
The Bull By The Horns: The battle for Chile's Social Security Reform, by José Piñera (Excerpts from "El Cascabel al Gato", 1991)
AFPs, roads, and capital markets (Business Week, 2004)
Retiring in Chile, by José Piñera (NYT, 2004)
Free trade and Social Security Choice, by José Piñera and Aaron Lukas (WSJ, 1999)
Chileans unravel Social Security tangle, by Jose Piñera (WSJ,1986)
A note on Chile's  private disability insurance, by José Piñera.
The integrated disability and retirement system of Chile, by Estelle James and Augusto Iglesias (2007)
ECONOPOWER, Ch. 5. on Chile, by Mark Skousen.
Political effects in Chile of private accounts, by Mark Klugmann.
Money to the People, by Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski.
How the power of ideas can transform a country, by José Piñera.
Myths about the Chilean system, by Chile's Association of AFPs.

Chile leads the way with individual unemployment accounts, by William B. Connerly (2002)

www.pensionreform.org, by Caroline Nolan.

El Cascabel al Gato, por José Piñera.
Discurso de José Piñera, 1º de mayo 1980
¡Accionistas del mundo, uníos!, por Carlos Alberto Montaner.
Efectos macroeconómicos de la Reforma de Pensiones en Chile, por Vittorio Corbo y Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel.


What has been said?


"Chile's Social Security reform was the most profound challenge to the welfare state in a generation. Thatcher and Reagan came later. The backlash against welfare started in Chile."
Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, 2008

"José Piñera has championed the biggest, the boldest and arguably the most succesful pension privatization of modern times."
Bill Jamieson, Economics Editor, Sunday Telegraph.




"A radical transformation of social security has been initiated in Chile, and we should give it a close look. It is the creature of a young and brilliant Harvard Ph.D. in economics. His name is Jose Piñera and he is the minister of labor." 
William F. Buckley Jr., The Boston Globe, November 20, 1980



"The Chilean system is perhaps the first significant social-policy idea to emanate from the Southern Hemisphere." 
Joe Klein, Newsweek, Dec. 12, 1994



"As the U.S.Ambassador to Chile at the time Jose Piñera developed his plans, I saw first hand how this group of committed free market economists, transformed Chile into a free society, fighting for freedom, democracy, and individual rights under the most difficult internal and external circumstances." 
George Landau, United States Ambassador to Chile, 1977-1981.